Not only "paying via WiFi": five technological concepts that everyone is wrong about - voila! technology

Paying via Wi-Fi

Let's start with the most recent disruption that took root so quickly, that we already had time to resent it more than once here on the channel.

Maybe it's because of the fact that both are wireless technologies, maybe it's the rainbow sign on the card - but "paying via Wi-Fi?"

became a scourge.

The technology is not Wi-Fi

and the protocol is EMV.

Anyway, no wifi.

It's enough to call it "WiFi payment" (Photo: ShutterStock, Usacheva Ekaterina)

Bluetooth

Like the mythical hanbrax (the strictest of jammers for hambrax) or the winker, the unfortunate Bluetooth technology also received the name of the

in Hebrew, perhaps because the Israelis often get confused with the th at the end.

In any case, according to the rules of transliteration and in general, it should be written and pronounced bluetooth (the dash at the end distinguishes it from the Hebrew gland), or simply: blue tooth.

Not "Bluetooth" (Photo: GettyImages)

Samsung connection

This is a common mistake as well recently, mainly because people don't know the official name of the connector on the bottom of the new Android phones, which is, of course, USB-C.

If its predecessor, Micro-USB was simply named USB (even though it is different from the traditional USB-A in computers, which is also called USB), then the new and symmetrical connection had to find another name, and since Samsung phones are so common in Israel, it was affixed to USB-C is the nickname Samsung connection, as a kind of generic name, like Pelephone.

so no.

Its name in Israel and in the world is USB-C.

Its name in Israel and in the world is USB-C (Photo: ShutterStock)

Microsoft

A mythological debate that the writer of these lines had with his editors during the time he wrote for one of the largest newspapers in Israel, was regarding Microsoft's transcription.

In the American pronunciation of the name, Mike-Russoft did use it, but we live in Israel, and that is not a sufficient justification to write the Hebrew name that way - just like in Hebrew you write Paris, not Paris.

Although even the company itself has embraced the disruption in recent years, when Microsoft Israel opened its doors here, somewhere in 1989, its name was written Microsoft Israel.

One Y.

not two

So has been the company's official website here for years, as well as the local company's registered name.

So Microsoft, not Mike.

In the American pronunciation of the name, the name was indeed used by Mike-Russoft (Photo: ShutterStock)

Giga Bite

We will finish with the Israeli disruption which is so old that it has become a classic in itself.

Many still think of the name of the unit of measurement for the volume of memory or digital storage giga.

This is a mistake.

It is not clear how the c became a g with a dash that changes the pronunciation to J, but it should be spelled and written gigabyte, since the origin of the word is in the Greek "giga", which is the accepted prefix for a billion (10 to the 9th power) in the metric system.

Of course, in binary units, on which the entire computing world is based, the billion is not exactly the same as the rounded decimal billion.

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